Zeljka Zorz

Phishers’ new trick for bypassing email URL filters
Phishers have come up with another trick to make Office documents carrying malicious links undetectable by many e-mail security services: they delete the links from the …

Rockwell Automation industrial energy meter vulnerable to public exploits
A low-skilled, remote attacker could use publicly available exploits to gain access to and mess with a power monitor by Rockwell Automation that is used by energy companies …

Flawed password managers allow malware to steal passwords from computer memory
The most widely used password managers sport fundamental vulnerabilities that could allow malware to steal the master password or other passwords stored by the software …

Detecting Trojan attacks against deep neural networks
A group of researchers with CSIRO’s Data61, the digital innovation arm of Australia’s national science agency, have been working on a system for run time detection of trojan …

IT security incidents affecting German critical infrastructure are on the rise
The number of IT security incidents reported by critical infrastructure companies in Germany has soared. In 2017, the German Federal Office for Security in Information …

Azure AD Identity Protection now revolves around risky users and risky sign-ins
Launched in September 2018, Microsoft Threat Protection (MTP) integrates a number of Microsoft services to provide a fully integrated, end-to-end solution for securing the …

Mozilla will use AI coding assistant to preemptively catch Firefox bugs
Mozilla will start using Clever-Commit, an AI coding assistant developed by Ubisoft, to make the Firefox code-writing process more efficient and to prevent the introduction of …

Bank of Valletta suspended all operations in wake of cyber attack
Maltese Bank of Valletta (BOV) has been breached by hackers and has temporarily suspended all of its operations to minimize risk and review its systems. The bank shuttered its …

Trickbot becomes one of the most dangerous pieces of modular malware hitting enterprises
Along with Emotet, Trickbot has become one of the most versatile and dangerous pieces of modular malware hitting enterprise environments. Most recently, its creators have …

Snapd flaw gives attackers root access on Linux systems
A vulnerability affecting Snapd – a package installed by default in Ubuntu and used by other Linux distributions such as Debian, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux, Fedora and Solus …

February 2019 Patch Tuesday: PrivExchange hole plugged
For the February 2019 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released fixes for over 70 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, 20 of which are rated Critical. Also rated Critical are the Adobe …

Hackers hit VFEmail, wipe US servers and backups
Unknown attackers have breached the servers of VFEmail and have wiped disks on every one of its US-based servers, the email provider has confirmed. At this time, the attacker …